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Major Historical Events That Influenced American Literature

Major Historical Events That Influenced American Literature. This information will be on your quiz on Friday !! Take notes if necessary. . 1400s and 1500s. 1492: Columbus lands in the Bahamas. 1499: 20,000 in England die in plague. 1513: Juan Ponce de Leon lands on the FL peninsula.

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Major Historical Events That Influenced American Literature

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  1. Major Historical Events That Influenced American Literature This information will be on your quiz on Friday!! Take notes if necessary.

  2. 1400s and 1500s • 1492: Columbus lands in the Bahamas. • 1499: 20,000 in England die in plague. • 1513: Juan Ponce de Leon lands on the FL peninsula. • 1565: St Augustine, FL – First permanent settlement in the U.S. • 1590: Iroquois Confederacy established to stop warfare among the Five Nations.

  3. 1600s • 1607: First permanent English settlement at Jamestown, VA. • 1620: Pilgrims land at Plymouth, MA. • 1630: Japan – All Europeans expelled. • 1639: First printing press in English-speaking North America arrives in MA. • 1642: England – Civil War Begins • 1647: MA establishes free public schools. • 1650: Anne Bradstreet publishes a collection of poems in England.

  4. 1600s (Cont.) • 1652: South Africa – First Dutch settlers arrive. • 1667: England – Milton publishes Paradise Lost • 1675: King Philip, chief of the Wampanoags, begins raiding New England Frontier towns. • 1683: China – All ports opened to foreign trade. • 1692: Salem witchcraft trials result in the execution of twenty people.

  5. 1700s (Before Revolution) • 1702: England – First daily newspaper published • 1735: John Peter Zenger acquitted of libel, furthering freedom of the press. (libel: a false, published statement that makes someone look bad) • 1741: Great Awakening, a series of religious revivals, begins to sweep the colonies. • 1741: Edwards gives his sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.

  6. 1700s (Events Surrounding the Revolution) • 1752: Ben Franklin conducts kite-and-key experiment. • 1753: African American Ben Banneker makes first clock with all American-made parts. • 1755: England – Sam Johnson publishes Dictionary of the English Language • 1759-63: France gives up claim to North American territory. • 1765: Stamp Act passed by British Parliament (taxes) • 1767: Townshend Act imposes new taxes on colonists.

  7. 1700s (Cont.) • 1769: Scotland – James Watt invents an improved steam engine. • 1773: Boston Tea Party • 1773: African American Phillis Wheatley publishes collection of poems in England. • 1775: Revolution Begins • 1776: Congress adopts Declaration of Independence • 1783: Webster’s Spelling Book first appears. • 1783: Revolutionary War ends. • 1787: Meeting in Philadelphia to draft Constitution • 1793: Eli Whitney invents cotton gin.

  8. 1800s (Before Civil War) • 1803: Louisiana Purchase • 1804: Lewis and Clark explore the West • 1817: William Cullen Bryant publishes “Thanatopsis” • 1818: England – Shelley publishes Frankenstein. • 1820: Missouri Compromise bans slavery in parts of new territories. • 1827: Poe publishes his first collection of poems. • 1838: Cherokees march on “Trail of Tears” to OK. • 1848: CA gold rush begins. • 1848: Women’s rights convention held in NY. • 1850-1852: Scarlett Letter, Moby Dick, and Uncle Tom’s Cabin published.

  9. 1800s (Civil War – end) • 1855: Whitman publishes Leaves of Grass • 1859: England – Darwin publishes The Origin of Species • 1860: SC secedes from the Union. • 1863: Emancipation Proclamation issued. • 1865: Robert E. Lee surrenders to Ulysses S. Grant. • 1876: Twain publishes Tom Sawyer • 1876: Baseball’s National League founded. • 1885: France – Louis Pasteur administers first rabies vaccine. • 1890: Last major battle between US troops and Native Americans.

  10. 1900-1930 • 1903: Wright Brothers fly airplane. • 1908: Ford builds first Model T. • 1917: US enters WWI. • 1918: Worldwide flu epidemic kills about 20 million people (not Edward, though – he becomes a vampire.) • 1920: Women gain right to vote. • 1925: F. Scott Fitzgerald publishes Great Gatsby. • 1929: Stock market crash.

  11. 1930-1945 • 1933: Germany – Hitler becomes German chancellor. • 1933: Roosevelt (and Congress) pass New Deal laws. • 1939: Wizard of Oz and Gone With the Wind appear in movie theaters. • 1939: WWII begins in Poland. • 1941: US joins WWII after bombing of Pearl Harbor. • 1945: Atom bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. • 1945: WWII ends.

  12. 1945-Now • 1948: UN establishes state of Israel. • 1954: Supreme Court rules public school segregation unconstitutional. • 1963: JFK assassinated. • 1968: MLK Jr. murdered in Memphis, TN. • 1972: Last US troops leave Vietnam. • 1987: Reagan signs INF treaty, banning short- and medium-range nuclear missiles. • 1990: Congress passes Americans with Disabilities Act. • 1991: Gulf War • 2001: September 11, 2001

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